If you are a chamber music fan, be sure to come to the Library on Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. to hear the Air Force's New England Winds. This unusual group consisting of Staff Sergeant Avril Claytor on flute, Staff Sergeant Kate Nettles on oboe, Senior Airman Ian Tyson on clarinet, Staff Sergeant Andrew Fordham on horn, and Staff Sergeant Christopher Stahl on bassoon, will regale you with popular, Broadway, patriotic, jazz and folk music as well as the traditional quintet repertory. Classical music for this grouping may be specifically written for it or may be derived from another genre. I have heard themes from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute successfully arranged for woodwind quintet.
If you are unable to attend this concert, consider listening to the Solaris's rendition of American Quintets, George Walker's Wood Set for Woodwind Quintet or Beethoven's inimicable Quintet in E-flat Major for Oboe, 3 Horns and Bassoon.
